Tag Archives: Hyper-V

As a follow up to my previous article on how to change the hypervisor on a new node from the factory here are my tips and tricks on how the process has changed since Nutanix no longer include the hypervisor binaries in the NOS Phoenix package.
There is now the Foundations Installer...

So you try to mount an ISO in the VMM library with the shared option and get the following error:
[error]
Error (12700)
VMM cannot complete the host operation on the (SERVER FQDN) server because of the error: 'VMName' failed to add device 'Virtual CD/DVD Disk'. (Virtual machine ID GUID)Failed to open attachment '(Library path to the ISO)'....

So I have been working recently on a large VDI project based on the Nutanix converged platform, which I have used before but only in its VMware hypervisor version, this time however the solution was to be based on Hyper-V.
So here is what I have learned...... The documentation is not complete or entirely accurate!!!!! However...

Nutanix now provide a hypervisor agnostic platform, which is great however if you do not clearly state which hypervisor you want it will come out of the factory with KVM installed, as I found out on my last project.
When I contacted Nutanix to ask what to do to change it to Hyper-V I was braced...

So you have taken the leap your going to build that Hyper-V 2012 Cluster. You build your hosts, you configure Hyper-V and Failover Clustering. Then like any good IT Professional you patch all the hosts to the same level only to find that when you open the Failover Cluster Management Console you get the bellow...

Just a quick post for those who are using Hyper-V in either Server 2012 R2 or Windows 8.1 (Client Hyper-V). The feature previously known as 'Snapshot' is no longer present - it has been replaced by the term 'Checkpoint'.
For those that did not know, this allowed for virtual machines to be returned to a previous state...

With Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V we now have the ability to Live Migrate (yes, Live Migration, the zero downtime migration) virtual machines between different hosts without needing a cluster or shared storage thus saving a vast expense that most small business cannot afford.
This is super easy to configure, so here goes.
First of all we need to ensure...

I was recently setting up another mailbox database target within an existing DAG and found that my database copy kept failing with the following error:
[error]The log copier was unable to continue processing for database 'MAILBOX_DB\SERVER' because an error occurred on the target server: Continuous replication - block mode has been terminated. Error: the log file...